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Travelling Light uses theatre to enhance the lives of children and young people
Our mission is to create outstanding theatre for and with young people that inspires their thinking, engages their emotions and fires their imaginations.
We create award winning professional productions which tour locally, nationally and sometimes internationally as well as into schools across our home city of Bristol. We also run a large participatory programme, which allows young people to learn skills and create their own theatre. This work has a particular focus on engaging participants from our immediate locality - Lawrence Hill, a ward among the 10% most deprived in England. We aim to reach many children and young people through our work who would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience theatre.

Travelling Light runs Bristol's friendliest Youth Theatre, at which we create a safe and welcoming space where young people feel a sense of belonging and have a platform to hear and be heard. It comprises regular term-time after-school drama workshops for 5-19 year olds where they learn creative and interpersonal skills, make new friends and work with inspiring adults. Currently we reach almost 60 young people a week, and each term we give the Youth Theatre a specific theme to explore, and a specific arts approach within which to develop skills. Each term ends with an informal sharing of achievements.

We are located in Lawrence Hill, the most deprived ward in Bristol and among the 5% most deprived in England. The majority of our participants live in the area, which is among the 1% most deprived. We aim to help young people realise their potential to succeed and achieve. We aspire to serve our community as a unique centre of learning for young people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. We want to enable young people to make a positive difference to the world and be recognised for their achievements.

We need to raise just £2,500 to keep the Youth Theatre running past January 2014 and want to raise half of that through crowd funding. Every little helps.

Rewards

Get £5 reward

Get £10 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board

7 backers so far

Get £20 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw

3 backers so far

Get £100 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge and personalised t-shirt
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw
5. A very special invitation to our Youth Theatre's Christmas sharing
6. An extra special invitation to meet the Youth Board

1 backer so far

Get £500 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge and personalised t-shirt
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw
5. A special invitation to our Youth Theatre's Christmas sharing
6. An extra special invitation to meet the Youth Board
7. A thank you in the programme for our unique, personally tailored experience to see the development and making of a family theatre festival we are producing in June 2014

1 backer so far

Get £1,250 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge and personalised t-shirt
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw
5. A special invitation to our Youth Theatre's Christmas sharing
6. An extra special invitation to meet the Youth Board
7. A personally tailored experience to see the development and making of a family theatre festival we are producing in June 2014

0 backers so far

Get £1,250 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge and personalised t-shirt
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw
5. A special invitation to our Youth Theatre's Christmas sharing
6. An extra special invitation to meet the Youth Board
7. A thank you in the programme for the family theatre festival we are producing in June 2014
8. A unique guided tour of our family theatre festival including a thank you supper

0 backers so far

Get £2,500 reward

1. Your name and picture on our Supporters webpage
2. A Travelling Light badge and personalised t-shirt
3. A thank you letter from our Youth Board
4. An entry into our Friend of the Year trophy draw
5. A special invitation to our Youth Theatre's Christmas sharing
6. An extra special invitation to meet the Youth Board
7. A thank you in the programme for the family theatre festival we are producing in June 2014
8. A unique guided tour of our family theatre festival and a thank you supper
9. A one of a kind photo story book of the Youth Theatre's year, showing you where your support has gone